Giorgia Grassini

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Giorgia Grassini is a printmaker currently based in London, United Kingdom. She is one of the founding members of Eight Women Print, a collective created by women artists come together while attending Printmaking year 1 & 2 at City Lit.

Born and raised in Italy, the artist’s work is characterised by storytelling, vibrant colours, and texture. Interested in narratives, she reinterprets myths, folktales and fairy tales. Some of the distinctive features in her prints are rich colours and textures. The artist mainly focuses on linocut and woodcut as a result of their meditative and calming carving process. She prints on different surfaces, creating collages, art books, and animating her work.

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Woodcut of a puffin with fishes in the beak with yellow background by printmaker Giorgia Grassini, part of the collective Eight Women Print
Etching and aquatint in blue of a plate divided in two by printmaker Giorgia Grassini, part of the collective Eight Women Print
Linocut print of a rabbit playing with the moon by printmaker Giorgia Grassini, part of the collective Eight Women Print
Woodcut of a puffin with fishes in the beak with yellow background by printmaker Giorgia Grassini, part of the collective Eight Women Print
Photo etching of collage of succulent plants by printmaker Giorgia Grassini, part of the collective Eight Women Print
Etching and aquatint of banana leaves in blue, red and yellow by printmaker Giorgia Grassini, part of the collective Eight Women Print
Linoleum etching of organic shapes in yellow, lime and dark green by printmaker Giorgia Grassini, part of the collective Eight Women Print
Monoprint in black of abstract shapes by printmaker Giorgia Grassini, part of the collective Eight Women Print
Drypoint print on plexiglass of exotic monstera leaves by printmaker Giorgia Grassini, part of the collective Eight Women Print
Typography experiment on brown paper by printmaker Giorgia Grassini, part of the collective Eight Women Print
Japanese Woodcut of pears in a bowl on a table by printmaker Giorgia Grassini, part of the collective Eight Women Print
Typography experiment (variant) with shapes that remind the moon and a house by printmaker Giorgia Grassini, part of the collective Eight Women Print

Giorgia Grassini is deeply passionate about storytelling. She is fascinated about stories and the need that we - as humans - have to tell them since the inception of humankind. For millennia, stories were handed down orally from one generation to the next to teach, inspire and remember. As a firm believer that stories unite people, she is especially interested in myths, folktales, and fairy tales which had the purpose to explain the world and its experiences. Because of her origins, the printmaker familiarised with Roman and Greek mythology from a young age. She has always loved to hear how different cultures around the world answered timeless questions by the means of storytelling. The artist has the objective to tell stories through her work: she starts her creative process focusing on a well-known story, researching written and visual reference materials, re-interpreting it using different mediums and techniques, and sometimes changing the ending of the story itself.

The printmaker is passionate about colours and their infinite possibilities to deliver a variety of messages according to their hue, saturation, and intensity. She believes that colours are the first element to be recognised and noticed in everyday life and especially in art. Colours are an integral part of her composition process: they are carefully selected in order to power the artwork with its intended meaning. Although, most of the time, she is pleasantly surprised by happy accidents while mixing and combining colours. Texture is another constant component in her work. She associates textures to visual and tactical experiences in order to enrich the stories she decides to tell. Her obsession with colours and texture is linked to her childhood and adolescence spent between North and South Italy where the colour palette is bold and vibrant without soft nuances, and textures are everywhere to be found in all daily activities and experiences.

Giorgia Grassini is interested in processes, she experiments and mixes different printmaking techniques in her work. Preferring relief - linocut and woodcut - she is fond of the practicality of the medium, creating and printing from her home studio. She enjoys the meditative process of carving, paying attention to details, and printing manually hence adding more texture to the final design. Recently she has been exploring Japanese woodcut and its non-toxic printing process. Furthermore, the printmaker has a fascination with etching. Working at the Bainbridge studios, she is fascinated with the process and by its infinite possibilities. With her not-so-successful results and tests, she creates art books using collage and mixing media. Given her background in animation, she also manipulates her printed pieces to make videos, thus giving life to her creations. She is a strong supporter of sustainable practices, balancing traditional printmaking with more environmentally friendly processes and methods. 

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